The charge stemmed from his failure to properly record how he treated Hip Wolf on the day she was allegedly tubed, a practice of pumping medication through a tube inserted into the horse's nostril directly into its stomach.

He also did not receive a license in New York, and he received separate fines for tubing a horse and misusing lasix within the last three years of his practice.

3 [with adverbial]Convey in a tube:the wells were flooded, and this water, tubed off, yielded a supply of 38,000 gallons per hour